Europe, 1598-1715: Period V (Periods of European History)

viii, 392, 24 pp. 2 color fold-out maps, 3 black-and-white maps. CONTENTS: Europe at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century; France Under Henry IV; The Counter-Reformation and Religious Troubles in Germany; The Beginning of the Thirty Years' War; The Thirty Years' War from the Peace of Lubeck to the Peace of Prague; The Aggrandisement of France; France under Richelieu and Mazarin; Northern Europe to the Treaty of Oliva; Louis XIV and Colbert; Louis XIV and the United Provinces; Louis XIV and William III; South-Eastern Europe; The Northern Nations from the Treaty of Oliva to the Peace of Utrecht; The Partition Treaties and the Grand Alliance; The War of the Spanish Succession and the Death of Louis XIV; Genealogical Tables: The Sovereigns of Europe During the Century; The House of Bourbon; The Cleves-Julich Succession; The Spanish Succession; Index.